Wednesday, 30 September 2009

Medicare: It’s a Capitalist Thing

Labels are devices to save
talkative persons the trouble of thinking.John Morley

Let’s dispose of a liberal talking point about Medicare
that the Obamabots in media are constantly getting wrong.

When Americans complain that
Obama’s government health insurance mandate is a move away from Capitalism,
Obama’s supporters counter with Medicare.They label it a limited form of Socialism, in an attempt to make the
point that America has already moved away from Capitalism, so moving further
away is no big deal.

As is usual with Obama
supporters, they’re wrong.Medicare is
an expected derivative of Capitalism, not Socialism.

If you’re a Capitalist, read on
to examine this issue further.If
you’re an Obama supporter, go cry in the corner over the loss of yet another of
your weak arguments (or take your usual position and just call me a racist).

Let’s talk about competition in
the market.

Capitalism is competition.People compete for resources, which they
sell or use to make other resources, which in turn grows the economy.Competition is the key to both success and
failure.

Competition being good for the
economy is the official position of the United States government.The Department of Justice Anti-trust
Division exists to defend competition.

Here is the position of the DOJ
Anti-trust Division about “competition,” taken from their website:

Antitrust laws protect competition. Free and open
competition benefits consumers by ensuring lower prices and new and better products.
In a freely competitive market, each competing business generally will try to
attract consumers by cutting its prices and increasing the quality of its
products or services. Competition and the profit opportunities it brings also
stimulate businesses to find new, innovative and more efficient methods of
production.

Since America is based upon
people competing against one another, we recognize that there are 3 groups of
people who can’t be expected to compete:

1)Children

2)The
Elderly

3)The
sick

While Americans are competitive,
we are also the most compassionate people on earth, giving away more dollars to
the rest of the world than any other country by far (yet according to liberals,
everyone still hates us).

Were we not compassionate, we
would let those 3 groups who can’t compete in America (children, the elderly
and the sick) fall by the wayside.But
we don’t.Our system of competition
sets up programs to care for those not in the competition.

Medicare for the elderly is one
of them.It’s a sum of money collected
from those who are competing, to take care of those no longer competing.

These programs are a product of
Capitalism, and it’s benevolent understanding that those who cannot compete
must be cared for.They exist as part
of the Capitalist structure, not in spite of it.

This is precisely where President
Obama parts company with America.He
now wants to extend federal benefits beyond the children, the elderly and the
sick.He wants the government to
involve itself in the distribution of resources to those who are supposed to
compete for them.

That means people who say Obama’s
health insurance mandate is a move away from Capitalism are correct.They are calling him a Socialist (more aptly
his plans are Corporatist, mirroring 1930’s European fascist economy) because
he wishes to mandate the taking of money from some and redistribute it others
(namely insurance companies).It’s
Eminent Domain on steroids.

Redistribution of wealth is what
Obama told Joe the Plumber he would do, and spent the rest of his campaign
swearing to us that he wouldn’t do.

So the next time a Dummycrat
attempts to convince you that Medicare was America’s move toward Socialism, let
him know that Medicare is a Capitalist function. Obama’s mandate to purchase
insurance for those who should buy their own is the anti-capitalist proposal in
the dwindling marketplace of leftist ideas.

I, too, wanted to say, welcome back! And you are correct, medicare and the like, do support those who are unable to compete anymore. Expanding that out to everyone else is to eliminate competition and thus drive up costs. In a single payer system, the old way to cut costs is to ration. And who decides what to ration, why the elitist government official or panel of course. Just like our friends in Britian. What a crock! Keep swinging, Tommy. Love the work.